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  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘Truth is your condition right now. Regardless of what that condition may be, it is the…

  • Dogen

    ‘Going to the seashore to count grains of sand vainly wastes one’s strength. Polishing a tile…

  • Doubling up

    Towards the end of last year, I had the opportunity to officiate weddings on consecutive days,…

  • Zoketsu Norman Fischer

    ‘Now, if you reflect on your sitting practice, just today, for instance, if you are sitting…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘As I said this afternoon in my lecture, the second master of my temple in Japan…

  • Derek Walcott

    The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door,…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier to real…

  • Emma Bragdon

    ‘While following a monastic lifestyle, for the first time I felt at home in this world.…

  • Heshan

    Heshan said, “Learning by study is called ‘hearing’; learning no more is called ‘nearness’; transcending these…

  • Rev angel Kyodo williams

    ‘While it has long been established by scholars that the lineage as written couldn’t possibly be…